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[hirac_utzum]

I admit to having been reluctant in asking of this, but it truly is... disconcerting, and I am not at all certain whether this is normal in this world. But it is better to obtain as much information as possible, in situations where one can do so.

[He knows he is dithering, so he just comes out with it.] If anyone in this place has, ah, unusual

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[xnoble_reasonx]

It is the Mist. There is nothing you can do about it.

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[hirac_utzum]

[Making a bit of a face.] That may be so, but are there not at least observable effects, so one can see if there is a pattern among them? It might help in understanding just how this Mist works.

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[xnoble_reasonx]

There is no pattern.

[ Ignoring that face. Faces are boring. ]

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[trickster_treat]

No one else is here from my world. Good thing too because they're total party killers.

I can do some pretty~ nifty things and haven't lost any of them.

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[hirac_utzum]

There are certain people from my world that I would much prefer not be here as well.

I too still possess the ability that is the cause for my concern, but the way in which it works has changed. It is supposed to function according to very specific rules, but it is not following those presumed, ah, settings any longer, and I am not certain what to make of it.

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[trickster_treat]

Besides, I wouldn't want the people I like to get stuck in this pit either.

Pffft... rules. Who needs 'em?

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[moarnomsplz]

[Ax heard the story Elfangor told to the human male, and he did not know how to respond. He still does not, but knows he must say something. He is not sure which part is more unbelievable: that his brother was a deserter, or that their people resorted to tactics more befitting Yeerks. He thinks he does know what incident Elfangor is referring to, but Ax has always believed the rumors about the quantum virus and the Hork-Bajir world were nothing more than lies spread by the enemy.

He cannot help but think of the head of the Council 'correcting' him in the matter of who gave the humans morphing abilities, and it is, after all, only logical that the party with the most to gain by lying would be the ones doing so.

Ax can imagine how painful it would be if his human friends forgot him. How much worse it must be if the one who has forgotten is someone you love... someone you gave up so much for.]

Now I know what you menn, men-tuh, when you said it was not the first time that being-ing has interfered, feer-duh, with you.

[This is good,

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[hirac_utzum]

You would not have had reason to know, Aximili. By the time I returned home... the Fleet, our people, they--

[He breaks off, shakes his head.] I wanted to be a hero, when I was your age. I thought it was all some grand adventure. But at that time, I had no idea what it meant. That it meant giving up a part of yourself to defend what is most important.

But I did terrible things, and our military, they... suppressed certain information. Like they tried to with the quantum virus that War-Prince Alloran unleashed upon the Hork-Bajir planet. They did not want our people to know that it was through my actions--and inaction--that War-Prince Alloran came to be The Abomination.

[He knows that it cannot be fair, to thrust all this upon his brother now. But he wants him to know, to not think him some paragon of a warrior when he falls so very short of that.]

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[moarnomsplz]

[Ax both wants to be a hero, and fears he never will be. Fears he cannot possibly live up to the example set by his brother.

Ax has spoken to Alloran as Alloran. He has heard the War-Prince beg for death, and was not able to grant it to him. A hope that there would be another way to free him, or cowardice? Ax is still not certain which it was.]

You... I cannot believe, leeve it, Elfangor. There must have been extentuating, tenn-you-ate-ing, circumstances.

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[hirac_utzum]

[Of course there were extenuating circumstances, but that made it no less his fault. If he hadn't attacked Alloran...

But there is nothing to be done for it now.]

Regardless of the circumstances, I am responsible. That was one of the reasons I had to return.

[The other, much more personal, was already obliquely spoken of when he shared that bit of his past with that other fellow, intentionally publicly so that Aximili might see, might understand.

And yet, there are more reasons beyond that. Oh, of course it all boiled down to the willful meddling of the Ellimist and things falling into place according to his plans, but still, he'd had his own reasons--the things which made this all his responsibility, as well.

There was that nagging sense of Andalite duty, of doing the honorable thing, though he suspected that others probably felt a much more defined sense of it within themselves.

And far more importantly than that was this. His brother. When the Ellimist had told him he would not exist in the timeline he had created with Loren

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[cursedtobe]

... A little.

What ability do you have...?

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[hirac_utzum]

It is a form of shapeshifting, only it is a bit more... complicated than that. And there are rules, such as how long you can remain in a form before becoming permanently trapped. But these rules seem to have been twisted a bit, I suppose by this Mist that I have heard others speak of.

Do you have an ability? Have you noticed any changes?

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[cursedtobe]

[ A surprised pause. She forgets to be wary. ]

Complicated how? [ ... the idea of being permanently trapped in the form of the Bastet was terrifying. Could have have happened to her? She almost misses the question, and when she hears it she almost doesn't answer. ]

Yeah. To both. I.... I change.

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[hirac_utzum]

Complicated in that it is a technologically-developed and transferred ability, and as such, has several parameters for functionality. You need to touch a biological entity in order to acquire its form, to be able to take on its form with adequate concentration. And you must do so from your original form, you cannot acquire creatures from an assumed form. You can only remain in an assumed form for two hours at a time before you will be unable to return to your true form. There are other rules, but these are the primary ones.

Yet, I have been in a form that is technically not my 'true' form for longer than this permitted duration of time, and even so have been able to revert to my original form. [Nevermind that he feels as though human ought to qualify, on a baser emotional level. But that is not how this is supposed to work.]

I assume your ability to change works in a different way?

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[trephaestos]

[listens in on all this. With intent.]